Adverts and how they work on you, sentence 2
Ads sell feelings: happy, cool, grown-up; they use famous footballers, cartoon animals, free toys, camera tricks that make a 10cm toy look 50cm tall, and numbers like "9 out of 10 kids love it" without saying which kids.
Who acts: Ads, feelings, camera tricks, cm toy, 9 kids, kids · What happens: sell, grow up, use, make, look, love · To what, where: feelings, famous footballers, ad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts and how they work on you» of the money course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ads, feelings, camera tricks, cm toy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ads | ad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sell | nsubj |
| 2 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sell | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feelings | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cool | punct |
| 7 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 happy | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grown | punct |
| 9 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 feelings | acl:relcl |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 up | punct |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 grown | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 use | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 use | nsubj |
| 14 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sell | parataxis |
| 15 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 footballers | amod |
| 16 | footballers | footballer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 use | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 animals | punct |
| 18 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 animals | compound |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 footballers | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 toys | punct |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 toys | amod |
| 22 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 footballers | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tricks | punct |
| 24 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tricks | compound |
| 25 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 footballers | conj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 make | nsubj |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 tricks | acl:relcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 toy | det |
| 29 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 cm | nummod |
| 30 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 toy | compound |
| 31 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 look | nsubj |
| 32 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 make | xcomp |
| 33 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 cm | nummod |
| 34 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 tall | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 look | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 numbers | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 numbers | cc |
| 38 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 footballers | conj |
| 39 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 46 love | mark |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 love | punct |
| 41 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 kids | nummod |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 10 | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 10 | case |
| 44 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 9 | nmod |
| 45 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 love | nsubj |
| 46 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 numbers | acl:relcl |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 love | obj |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 love | punct |
| 49 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 50 saying | mark |
| 50 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 love | advcl |
| 51 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 52 kids | det |
| 52 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 saying | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | Ads | feelings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow up | participle | feelings not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | use | present | feelings = feeling | famous footballers and cartoon animals and free toys and camera tricks and numbers | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footballer=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | present | camera tricks | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | a cm toy | tall property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | love in a quote | present | 9 kids | ad | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | gerund | which kids | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:money:033-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you.lesson:2.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
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